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The TLD surprised me, I didn't know you could request one. The article I found that covers off on purchasing (leasing?) a TLD ironically used Google as an examp

The TLD surprised me, I didn't know you could request one. The article I found that covers off on purchasing (leasing?) a TLD ironically used Google as an example. The article is from 2011. "The process itself may be relatively straightforward. ICANN will make applications available (get the May 2011 draft of the Applicant Guidebook) from January 12, 2012 through April 12, 2012, giving companies time to develop a marketing plan and come up with justification to pay the $185,000 application fee and, if approved, the annual $25,000 fee. " Source: http://adrianroselli.com/2011/06/make-your-own-tld-i-want-bacon.html http://adrianroselli.com/2011/06/make-your-own-tld-i-want-ba...

scrollaway 10y ago
I'm slightly disappointed they haven't set up http://google.blog http://google.blog yet. https://get.blog/ https://get.blog/
- tomschlick 10y ago
  I think you can signup but can't actually get them yet.
- ocdtrekkie 10y ago
  If Google buys it, they'll probably just buy it to squat it, rather than use it. They're probably butthurt they lost out on the .blog gTLD. Google wanted to make it a completely walled garden TLD only for Blogger users. And Google cost us the option of having a .dev gTLD, that's for Google's use only. "Let's not forget, the Californian goliath had tried to bag .blog, which it intended to pair with its Blogger service so that the only way to get a .blog domain would be to use Blogger." http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/13/google_developer_gtld_domain_icann/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/13/google_developer_gtl...
  - markdown 10y ago
    > Google wanted to make it a completely walled garden TLD only for Blogger users. And they lost to Wordpress, who did exactly that.
    - ocdtrekkie 10y ago
      That appears to be false, as https://nic.blog/ https://nic.blog/ is soliciting registrars to offer it and .blog does not appear on ICANN's list of exclusive use gTLDs.
      - markdown 10y ago
        Ohh, great to hear. Thanks for the correction. I was right about ownership, but not about what they plan to do with it. https://ma.tt/2016/05/blog/ https://ma.tt/2016/05/blog/

scrollaway 10y ago

I'm slightly disappointed they haven't set up http://google.blog http://google.blog yet. https://get.blog/ https://get.blog/

tomschlick 10y ago
I think you can signup but can't actually get them yet.
ocdtrekkie 10y ago
If Google buys it, they'll probably just buy it to squat it, rather than use it. They're probably butthurt they lost out on the .blog gTLD. Google wanted to make it a completely walled garden TLD only for Blogger users. And Google cost us the option of having a .dev gTLD, that's for Google's use only. "Let's not forget, the Californian goliath had tried to bag .blog, which it intended to pair with its Blogger service so that the only way to get a .blog domain would be to use Blogger." http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/13/google_developer_gtld_domain_icann/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/13/google_developer_gtl...
- markdown 10y ago
  > Google wanted to make it a completely walled garden TLD only for Blogger users. And they lost to Wordpress, who did exactly that.
  - ocdtrekkie 10y ago
    That appears to be false, as https://nic.blog/ https://nic.blog/ is soliciting registrars to offer it and .blog does not appear on ICANN's list of exclusive use gTLDs.
    - markdown 10y ago
      Ohh, great to hear. Thanks for the correction. I was right about ownership, but not about what they plan to do with it. https://ma.tt/2016/05/blog/ https://ma.tt/2016/05/blog/